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The Snow

By Adam Roberts
The Snow by Adam Roberts digital book - Fable

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The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.

And this is how the world will end ...

'The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths, or like static interference on your TV screen - whichever metaphor, nature or technology, you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere, all through the air, with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush, busy-busy snowflakes. And, simultaneously, paradoxically, everything is hushed, calm, as quiet as cancer, as white as death.

And at the beginning people were happy.'

But the snow doesn't stop. It falls and falls and falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150,000 survive. But those 150,000 need help, they need support, they need organising, governing.

And so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.

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“Just when i would think that I had a handle on what was going on in this science fiction novel, all of a sudden it would change and become a different kind of apocalypse. It begins with Londoner Tira experiencing the vast snow fall that blots out all of her normal life and then making her way to an office building where she lives with a man who has similarly become a refugee from the snow. Then, when it seems as though this is a pretty standard end of the world narrative, Tira is rescued from below the snow and brought above ground to where a militaristic government has taken command of the remaining population. Then, just when I became confident that I was reading a book that feel into the science fiction tradition of 1984, about what happens when a government attempts to completely control the population, there was yet another twist that morphed the story into a third kind of science fiction. I thought that these twists and turns made for a really interesting and thought provoking story. The book is written in the form of narratives which have been released by the government and various names of characters are redacted. I thought this made for an interesting reading experience. At times it was aggravating because it took away from the flow of the story, but then at other times it made the story feel more authentic. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good adventure/science fiction story as well as to anyone who is interested in the links between spirituality and science fiction.”

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